Abdoulaye Wade urges compatriots to boycott presidential election

Speaking
in France, in his home residence, Versaille, the former president of Senegal –
93-year-old Abdoulay Wade has urged his compatriots to boycott the forthcoming
presidential elections slated for the 24th of February, 2019.

“President
Macky Sall will win the elections by 55 to 60 percent of the votes in the first
round because already he has placed mechanism to rig the elections. He
eliminated his two serious rivals to the race of the presidency namely; my son
Karim Wade, and former mayor of Dakar, khalifa Sall,” he said.

He
added that Mr. Sall accused them of misuse of government funds. Karim was
previously jailed for about four years and now in exile in Qater and later
pardoned by President Sall and the former mayor, Khalifa Sall is serving jail
sentence of five years.

“They
were eliminated by the constitutional court who said they were not eligible to
stand for elections. Another obstacle that President Sall made was to introduce
patronage of voters, asking every candidate to have 53 000 signatory voters who
signed their support to a candidate countrywide.”

He
explained that Mr. Sall made it difficult that at least with the 14 regions,
one must have 7 regions where people can back his/her candidature. It was
extremely difficult for many aspirants who were finally eliminated in the race
only 5 of them qualified. They are the incumbent Macky Sall, Madike Nyang,
Ousman Sonko, Idrissa Seck, and Issa Sall.

“I
am appealing once again for the interest of democracy that the electoral code
should be reviewed because currently president Macky Sall amended the electoral
laws last year to suit him to win easily the election.”

For
me, I will not support any presidential candidate and I advocate for no
election February 24th 2019 because it
is not in the interest of the nation and democracy. President Sall wants the
country to plunge in riot, he wants to destabilise the country by imposing
dictatorship.”

Ex-president
Wade will arrive in Dakar today at 3 p.m. after two years in absentia.
According to sources; Mr. Wade said he would make sure there will be no
election on 24 February 2019.